First Listen: Neko Case, 'Hell-On'
A quarter-century into Case's career, her words still feel intensely personal and utterly oblique, as if she's whispering her darkest secrets in Sanskrit.
There are billions of voices in the world, so it's a stretch to call any one of them "peerless." But through seven albums â not to and, and a long-running gig in â has reached a point where her voice conjures a constellation of mixed emotions on its own. Before her words and meanings can be parsed, the sound alone has become shorthand: You feel mystery, hurt and want in every weary, soaring note.
